bedienen
Meaning in English: to serve, to operate
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Die neue Kasse ist leicht zu bedienen.
The new till is easy to operate.
Forms of bedienen in the top 5,000
German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of bedienen are also in the top 5,000:
Hier wird man sehr freundlich bedient.
You get very friendly service here.
How common is bedienen?
bedienen is number 4,130 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,130
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- German B1 vocabulary#1,336
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.